Algolia

Build Search Experiences

 Nabeel Ahmed

thenabeel.com

Faceted Search

Search Frameworks

• Solr
• Sphinx

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Why Algolia?

• Cloud hosted

• Full-text, numerical, and faceted search engine

• Results in a few milliseconds

•  as-you-type experience

• Better relevance algorithm, not TF-IDF approach

• Global Language Support

• Typo-tolerance

• Highlighting and Snippeting

• REST API

• Libraries/SDKs available for almost-every platform

Concepts

• Indices
• Records
• Operations

Hands-on Demo

Resources

Facet search explanation:

https://lucidworks.com/2009/09/02/faceted-search-with-solr/

Algolia Relevance:

https://blog.algolia.com/how-algolia-tackled-the-relevance-problem-of-search-engines/

Algolia Clients & Integrations

https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/